The lawsuit also says Bumble’s co-creators are former Tinder employees who used information learned at Tinder to create features on Bumble.

Facebook is facing heat again

The social media giant is again embroiled in controversy after it revealed that a third-party analytics firm named Cambridge Analytica, which was a top vendor for President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, improperly kept data from millions of Facebook users after saying it no longer had that information.

While Facebook said Friday that it suspended the analytics firm for the act, the news has caused debate over Facebook’s lack of control over third-party access to users’ information.

Below is a quote from U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake (R., Ariz.), who is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on the Cambridge Analytica news. The quote is from an appearance by Flake on CNN:

This is a big deal, when you have that amount of data. And the privacy violations there are significant. So, the question is, who knew it? When did they know it? How long did this go on? And what happens to that data now?

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